JOHANN JOHANNSSON - Last And First Men (Reissue) - 2LP - Vinyl

LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon

CAT NO: 94860473

BARCODE: 0028948604739

Tracklisting:

1. Prelude – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Viktor Orri Árnason
2. A Minor Astronomical Event – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Colin Stetson
3. A Move To Neptune – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Paul Corley & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Viktor Orri Árnason
4. Physical Description Of The Last Human Beings – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Else Torp & Kate Macoboy & Liam Byrne & Viktor Orri Árnason & Budapest Art Orchestra
5. Architecture – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson & Samuli Kosminen & Else Torp & Kate Macoboy & Erik Enocksson & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Viktor Orri Árnason & Budapest Art Orchestra
6. Supreme Monuments – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
7. Telepathic Unity – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Sam Slater & Rutger Hoedemaekers & Wouter Rentema
8. Childhood / Land Of The Young – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Else Torp & Kate Macoboy & Viktor Orri Árnason & Budapest Art Orchestra
9. The Navigators – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Else Torp & Kate Macoboy & Viktor Orri Árnason & Budapest Art Orchestra
10. The Sun – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Else Torp & Kate Macoboy & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Viktor Orri Árnason
11. A New Doom – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Viktor Orri Árnason & Morris Kliphuis
12. Task No. 1: The Scattering Of Seeds – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson & Samuli Kosminen
13. Task No. 2: Communicating With The Past – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Colin Stetson & Viktor Orri Árnason & Budapest Art Orchestra
14. The Last Office Of Humanity – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Colin Stetson & Viktor Orri Árnason & Budapest Art Orchestra
15. Slow Destruction Of Neptune – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Else Torp & Kate Macoboy & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Viktor Orri Árnason & Morris Kliphuis
16. The Few That Prevail – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Viktor Orri Árnason
17. The Last Men – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Liam Byrne & Else Torp & Sara Fors & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Viktor Orri Árnason & Budapest Art Orchestra
18. Remembrance Of The Past – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
19. The Universal End – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
20. Epilogue – Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON – Last and First Men
[2021 Reissue]

2LP – Standard Black Vinyl

Inspired by the cult sci-fi novel by Olaf Stapledon of the same name, Jóhann Jóhannsson paired images of a decaying futuristic landscape – filmed in 16mm black and white in the former Yugoslav republics – with his haunting orchestral score to form Last and First Men, a meditation on memory and loss. Featuring narration by Tilda Swinton and musical performances by Hildur Guðnadóttir.

Last and First Men is Jóhann Jóhannsson’s poetic swansong. The Icelandic composer was working on the score of his magnum opus at the time of his death in February 2018, distilling and intensifying the symphonic soundworld that he had premiered at Manchester International Festival (MIF) little more than six months earlier. Jóhannsson devised the multimedia work’s visual concept, travelled to the former Yugoslavia to shoot footage of isolated locations and futuristic war memorials, then set about marrying haunting images to music.